February 8, 2022 • 32 mins
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Wrestling Anonymous, Please hold Welcome toWrestling Anonymous, the podcast that collects your
calls from any kind of anything thathas to do with professional wrestling and plays
them publicly for the world to hear. The stories are all anonymous, so
with anonymity comes reality, and that'sthe whole fun of the show. I
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am your host and curator, prowrestler Cult Cabana. I do my best
to edit the calls and put themtogether in order to make the best show
possible for you to listen to everysingle week. If you're looking for more
calls and more shows, or justwant to help and support the show,
over on my Patreon. Each monthyou get two extra bonus shows on the
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first and the fifteenth. Ways tohelp and participate, rate and review on
Apple and Spotify, tell some peopleon social media or even in person,
or even tell someone to call intheir fun story of wrestling, interaction or
scenario. What about you. Maybeyou saw me doing a thing in Australia
this week and it blew your mind. I wish, I really wish I
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could talk more about what I'm doing. Eventually I will, but some people
saw me this week, came upto me and it was a lot of
fun for them, and maybe youwere one of those people, and if
it did happen to you, there'stwo very easy ways to share that story
with the world. Eighty seven Cabanatthirty four is the number. That's eight
seven two two two two sixty twothirty four or email of voice memo to
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eighty seven Cabanda thirty four at gmaildot com. Eighty seven Cabanda thirty four
is the number. Give it acall and leave a message. After the
beat Wrestling anonymous, please hold.So he is two thousand and six.
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I am a preacher's kid. Ihave access to a church. I have
keys. I am the channifer atthe time of my father's church, so
I am in charge of keeping itclean every week. My friends and I
discover that Ted DIBIASEI, the milliondollars Man, is doing like Christian youth
group things, and we decided,hey, you have access to a church.
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We will bring the million dollars Manover and he will talk to us,
but we won't tell anyone, andhe'll just be the three of us
and we'll have a great time.Come the million dollars Man in the coming
talk about like his days in Japan, or it was like in the eighties
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and early nineties in the WWAC,what it was like to be in the
nw euro etcetera, etcetera. Soit's going off with a hitch, like
we planned it, we got itbooked, and I guess Ted's people call
the church one day and find outthat like this isn't real, and he
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somehow gets ahold of me and Itaught to said, and he is just
just very father me and gives melike a butt chewing I've never gotten before,
but not like a really mean way, and he just goes, son,
I'm really disappointed in you guys.We could have done something special at
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that church. Oh no, yougot the disappointed dad talk from the million
dollars man. Also, I lovethat you were ready to scam the million
dollar man, but still as thepreacher's kid that you are, you would
only say butt chewing on an anonymouspodcast for all the listeners. I'm sorry
if this was a bait and switch, thinking you would hear a story about
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how million dollar man Ted Dbasi scammedthe church somehow huge plot twist. It
was the church that was scamming themillion dollar man Ted Dbias. Actually it
wasn't really the church. It wasthe church's son. It makes total sense.
I remember the time when Ted DBIASIand a lot of wrestlers they found
a new Oh, how can wesay, this way to make a living
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by mixing the world of Jesus inthe world of pro wrestling. And it
was doing these sermons and selling wrestlingalmost to the church. There was a
couple of leagues and I feel MillionDollar Man was a part of it.
I know George South is a partof it. And I'm not saying it's
Carney or Scammy, but it's anew revenue stream for some of these wrestlers,
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and why not mix your two loves? That makes sense to me.
And so there was a time whereTed DBAs was very involved in these churches
with wrestling, and he was travelingaround and he was doing sermons and he
was putting on shows. And toknow that if you're in at the church
somehow, and especially as a kid, so maybe you weren't like a hundred
percent down with it, but youloved wrestling that you had this crazy in
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to one of the legends, oneof the greats and still is one of
the greats. And ted To beasi'sjust trying to make a living. He's
trying to tour around. He's gotto get the word out that he's doing
these, so he's getting press releasesor whatever it is to let churches know
they could bring him in for anominal fee. And I would do the
exact same thing. If Barry Horwitzwas touring the synagogues and I, the
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son of a rabbi, found out. And I'm sure my rabbi father couldn't
give a crap about Barry Horwitz,but I knew, or maybe my dad
was like, hey, you knowthat wrestler. He's touring the synagogues.
I would do the same exact thing. Try to reach out, try to
get him to come to my synagogueso he could just sit down with me
and my friends. This is sucha fun story, and I get exactly
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where you were coming from. Threehail Mary's and an apolo will do and
I forgive you. Two thousand andtwo, I am in my fourth year
of a three year Bachelor of Artsprogram at York University in Toronto. I
am a horrible student. I amnot interested in school. I am only
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in school because my Jewish parents werebusting my balls to get a degree,
and I have one exam that Ineed to pass very very well in order
to graduate. I was very scaredthat I wasn't going to do that.
So I made the decision that mostgood, smart people would have made,
and that is to cheat. Ispent all night coming up with the most
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intricate cheat sheets you've ever seen onthese small little pieces of paper, and
so I had slept in. Iwas literally the last person in the auditorium
for the exam. And it's likeright out of a movie. And this
is marketing. This is a classfor marketing. And I walk in like
a complete JABBRONI and schlumped down onthe table and put my bag down,
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and I pull out my cheese sheetsand just slide them underneath the paper.
And so they asked you to flipover the page. And there was two
questions and they were both for youto fill out an essay form, my
worst way of doing anything in school. And the first question was something about
an oil company that you needed toprepare some sort of business plan for.
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And then the nightmare. It turnedinto a dream at this point because the
next question said, in the yeartwo thousand and three, WWWWE chairman Vince
McMahon and his Canadian franchise or Carlde Marco, are looking to globally expand
their company. Please provide a detailedanalysis on what you would do to advise
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them into making wwego globally. Icould not believe with my eyes the question
that was on that paper. Andyou may be thinking that that's bullshit.
How is that question on your exam? And that's because that one year in
particular, the marketing class had broughtin Canadian president of WWF, Carl DeMarco
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to speak to the class. Sothere was one session that spoke about wrestling
and WWF. I was the lastperson in the exam room. I had
written over twenty five pages detailed reportson what the WWE should do, from
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bring back Brett to bring back theWarrior, to fantasy booking matches, everything
that I could have ever dreamed ofin a question was asked to me.
And I am so thrilled to saythat I passed university. It was a
really solid exam. I can't evenbegin to tell you how much I Cole
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Cabana relate with this call. AndI can tell and understand the excitement in
which this caller tells the story mesomeone who did not want to go to
college, someone who was known formaybe getting some extra help on college exams
because I hated studying or even goingto school, someone who was forced to
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go to college by my parents becauseI wanted to be a pro wrestler and
I was obsessed with pro wrestling,so I only went to appease my parents
to get that degree. And withthat obsession of pro wrestling was the knowledge
that that's all I cared about andthe only reason that I took business.
Just like this person with an emphasison marketing, I have a business marketing
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degree from Western Michigan University only becauseI said to myself, well, I'm
going to be a wrestler. Eventually, I can't get a degree for professional
wrestling. What's the next best stayingwell business? I guess because there's a
business of wrestling. And every singlething I did in university was based off
of wrestling. Everything I thought tomyself, Well, if I'm taking this
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class and I want to build abusiness, I would build a wrestling show.
I would make in a wrestling empire. How do I mark it for
wrestling? It was all based onthat, and in my fantasy world,
I get this question and this motherfucker, this lucky motherfucker, who I feel
is so akin to me, andI do know who this caller is,
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so it's even more fun that Ican relate to him so much. Got
the dream question. It really isin no world would this ever happen,
And it made me so happy tolisten to because I feel I would have
done just as good, and Ifeel that these professors would have been like
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I've taught them something. I'm agreat professor. But it's like, no,
we all hate this. We lovewrestling, and years of reading the
dirt sheets and watching wrestling and goingthrough the magazines and finding the Internet and
being in AOL chat rooms. That'swhat made me pass this test. That's
what made me write twenty seven pagesin essay form detailing how smart I am
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not in business but in wrestling,because we're all so frigging obsessed with wrestling,
especially in that era, especially atthat age, and it really makes
me nostalgic, and it really makesme jealous. I'm honest, I have
a lot of jealousy because I wentto college. I have a marketing degree.
I took the bullshit tests. Isucked at school, and I loved
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that the thing we obsess about wecan use in school context and it can
make us look smart. We're allsmart. We are. We just all
happen to be smart about wrestling andnothing else. Well, some of you
are probably very educated, but inthis group, we know so much about
wrestling, and I'm so glad itcould translate to something else in your life.
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Wrestling Anonymous, please hold for sponsors. Two of my brothers, a
cousin, and our friend went toWWE Night of Champions two thousand and nine
in Philadelphia. The group's ages rangedfrom seventeen to twenty one, and we
all went to the show high Duringthe show, in the middle of a
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match, my little brother and cousin, who are both seventeen, returned to
our seats without sitting down, andmy brother asked me for the keys to
the car. I told him,no, you're not gonna be able to
get back in, and he saidhe'll figure it out. And I asked
him why he needs the keys,and he goes no time to play,
Just give me the f and keys, trust me. I didn't trust him,
but at that point in time,I started getting embarrassed with my brother
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making a scene by arguing and standingup and blocking people's view of an ongoing
match. So I said, screwit, and I gave him the keys.
As the show's going on, I'mvery concerned at this point in time
while my brother's out for a varietyof reasons, especially because I had no
idea what kind of shady shenanigans hewas up to, and I needed my
co are to be able to getback after the show to the most magical
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place of Long Island, New York. After what felt like the longest thirty
maybe forty minutes, little bro andcousin come back, and I can breathe
a sigh of relief. I askedthem where they were and what they were
doing, and my brother explained tome that he saw a wrestler in the
arena elevator. He knew this wrestlerlike to smoke weed and told him he
had a blunt in the car andasked if you wanted to smoke. The
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wrestler agreed, and somehow my brotherand my cousin got high with a WWE
superstar in my car in the parkinglot of what was then either the Welds
Fargo or Wacoba Center and then figuredout how to make his way back into
the building. Listen, I don'tencourage doing drugs. I think everybody knows
that about me. But this mightbe the perfect story. I know,
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I said, being a college studentand having to take a test on fantasy
booking the WWF might be the perfectstory. But I've changed my mind.
This is the story. These arethe stories that I want and called in.
This is so good and I hateto tell you, listener that he
did say who it was, andI did edit it out, and maybe
if you subscribe to The Patriot,I'll tell you in a message. But
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everything about this screams a wrestling anonymouscall. I could picture the actual wrestler
being like, don't worry, Iwill make sure we take you right through
security. I'm sure they went rightthrough the back door where the wrestlers were.
He probably took them right through thebackstage area and led them right back
to their seats, because it wasthat important that he gets to smoke this
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weed. Well, not that important. As a wrestler, I could tell
you, it's very easy to belike, come on, I'll get you
back in. So the wrestler knewthe ease of which it was to get
these fans back outside the wrestler andthe elevator. It all makes sense when
you told me who the wrestler is. He's just roaming around the arena.
He really doesn't care. And youknow that the wrestlers like to smoke weed.
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They do, a lot of themdo. I don't, never,
have never smoke weed in my life. I'm sorry if I've let you down.
I'm sorry if I wouldn't accept yourinvitation to your car and then get
you back in. But I lovethe story about it. Thank you for
the perfect scenario. And it wouldonly be better if you then went and
took a test afterwards on fantasy bookingprofessional wrestling at a university two eleven the
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Canadian Maritimes and a group coming fromOntario called CWI was coming through and on
the post that they had a hosta great name. Scott Steiner was there.
Rode Dug Billy gunn Xpoch, Brucepef Case I believe was there as
well as one of the Nasty Boys, if not both of them, being
a lifelong wrestling fan but not oneto have gone too many indie shows at
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the time I decided it was timeto go. This coincide with me also
discovering Twitter, so my very firstday on Twitter. Of course as wrestling
fan, I added every wrestler thatI could think of, and of course
they had a randomly messaging them ortweeting them so to speak, first got
every to get back to me.Actually it was road Dug, a very
pleasant quick conversation. I also owneda shower pair in Bedford, Nova,
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Scotia, and just randomly throughout theidea, Hey, road Doug, do
you need your gear worked on oryour wrestling boots fixed? To my surprise,
he replies, I don't, butBilly does. Come on down to
the show. The show that wewere going to meet up with was in
Sackville, Nova, Scotia, soI met up with them, found myself
in the middle of the locker roomwith a whole bunch of guys that grew
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up watching and these guys were asawesome as passing me. Then I got
to actually watch the show for free. After show, we met up at
the hotel so I could grab theirgear heading down to the lobby. They
had told me they were at Montana's. Was just being road Dog and Billy
Gunn having dinner. So I walkedinto the restaurant. There they are at
the in a booth. Road Dogwags me down, says, come sit
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with us. Also that peaks aroundthe corner. That sitting with him around
the booth was Scott Steiner. Youcan imagine how happy he would have been
to see a mark walking toward them, or a fan of any kind when
they were trying to have dinner.But he scooped over. I sat beside
him while they finished out their dinnerand we just talked about life for about
five to ten minutes. Then theadventure began, or a second part of
the adventure began. When we gotin the car and it was driving.
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It was probably a three minute drive. If you've ever driven with this man,
it's ridiculous. Man. He wasgiggling the whole time. And I
think as soon as he turned theaddition on the pedal was to the medal
to the dam swell friends with RoadDoug. I think we talked weekly.
All right, there's a lot goingon in this call. There was,
And that's the fun of this showis sometimes there's a call with not necessarily
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an overarching story which is the bestway to call on a call, have
a beginning, a middle, andan end. But sometimes there's just so
much happening that all of these nuggetsare information. All make for a great
scenario. Not always, but thishappened to be one of them. One
thing I'll say is I'll usually domy best to edit it out when a
fan calls themselves a mark. Itwas hard to edit on this one,
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so I couldn't. And it's somethingpeople do a lot, and it's a
word that I really just don't like, so I try to get rid of
it. I couldn't on this one. I don't like it. It's kind
of derogatory. I know you're callingyourself it, but to me, it's
kind of derogatory, not my favoriteword. You also ask question or said
if any of you have ever drivenwith Scott Steiner. No, nobody's ever
driven with Scott Steiner. A verysmall percentage of these listeners have dried.
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Maybe if Pete Williams is listening tothis, he's the only one who would
go, oh, yeah, Ihave, and it's crazy. The other
thing I was gonna note is ifyou have a profession or a trade in
which it could help a pro wrestler, they will always take you up on
it. We love free stuff,and we know that we do a job
where people are fans of ours.So for me, it's not necessarily like
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the Cohn like I'm going to calmthis guy into giving me a free thing
or whatever. It's almost the appreciationof, like, Wow, you like
me, and you do something that'scool that can help me. I think
what you do is great. Ido think it's like a double appreciation.
And that's why it wasn't surprising tome that he took you up on that,
or wanted to help his friend Billyfix his boots or whatever it might
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be. So as a wrestler,it doesn't really seem weird to me.
I know it might seem weird asa fan, but I'm telling you from
the wrestler perspective, that did makesense to me. If you're a normal
adult, I feel it could takeyou a long way in befriending wrestlers if
that's something you're looking to do.We're always looking for normalcy and a job
that's so crazy and so fast andvery hectic. Normalcy in a fan or
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a supporter is like a great cooloff brings us down checks us in reality,
helps us come down from the highI feel of performing and the whole
thing of pro wrestling. I'm anexchange student from Scotland and I'm currently living
in Northern California. So recently inmy time here, I was down for
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PWG's Battle of Los Angeles. Iwas very nervous. It was my first
show, and it was my firstwrestling show in over two years. Because
of the pandemic end lyne. Iwas kind of too nervous to speak to
anyone on This man called Alex.He went of his way to speak to
me, and he basically said tome was that you're in exchange student.
You are at your first time inAmerica, it is your first time at
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PWG show, and it's your firsttime in LA. I've got you and
just for the rest of the day, he just was so kind to me.
He made sure that I met people, He made sure that I met
wrestlers. He introduced me to allof his friends. We had lunch,
we had food together, we sattogether during the show. He made sure
I got good seats. He paidfor like all my dinner, all my
drinks, like he paid for marchas well like he just went out of
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his way to make sure that Ihad the best time, and to be
honest, I did, and itreally reminded me why I loved wrestling,
and it really reminded me why Iloved going to wrestling shows. I kept
in the name Alex and hopefully nexttime you're in line at PWG, I
assume everybody knows this Alex guy.And I'm not tapped. I'm not as
tapped into that scene as I wouldlike to anymore. I think I've kind
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of aged out of it a littlebit, sadly not my choice. But
in my youth a ring of honor, there was a fan and still is
a fan named Greg H. AndGreg H was very wealthy, and Greg
H took care of everybody and hewas and is the best. He threw
party, he took care of gettogethers, he took care of meals,
he took care of the wrestlers.At that time, we were all in
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our mid twenties, no one wasgetting paid that well. Greg H looked
after all of us. And thenas somebody who goes to Japan as a
foreigner when the Japanese quote unquote sponsorsor the wrestlers, find you a sponsor
or. The wrestlers even take careof you by your meals, show you
around, make sure you have agood time. It's the best I will.
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It makes my heart feel so good. I never forget these things.
So for Alex to do this forthis anonymous caller. As much as this
caller was saying how much he appreciatedit, I appreciate it even more.
This made me feel so good asa wrestling fan, as a wrestler,
as somebody in the community. AndI didn't even do anything. I just
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listened to this call. Alex isthe one that did something. But Alex
is representing people a group. Alex, you're a good person. Somebody knows
Alex. Let him know that Coltthinks you're a great person. And if
you need anything, I'm happy toset up anything to help you help others.
Caller. I'm glad you had thatexperience. I want you to know
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that America is great. American wrestlingfans can be great, and we do
have great people and great representation.And this call made me smile and made
me feel so good, maybe evenmore than you. I'm sure that's not
the truth. Wrestling anonymous please holdfor sponsors. Back in early two thousand,
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there was a wrestling show that Ihappened to be the promoter of the
show was in Winnipeg, Canada.Fortunately, the show was booked with a
couple of top stars. One ofthem his name was Paul Cabana, the
other one was the Monster of ThisThey both flew in from their respective hounds,
and unfortunately, as they got tothe border, co Cabana decided to
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go into a long winded rant withthe border security guard, talking about how
he's known me the promoter for along time, and we went to school
together in Michigan, and unfortunately thatstory was not true and he was denied
from being able to cross into thegreat the country of Canada. In terms
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of Abiss, same problem didn't tellthe truthless to why he came across the
border to enter, and it endedup with him not being able to enter.
So what should have been a showwith two amazing stars like Cool Cabana
and the Monster Abiss turned out tobe a main event hardcore match with fluorescent
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light tubes and craziness that the twopeople in the main event had never done
before, and it was quite thebattle. I truly believe that the show
would have been amazing had Colt Cabanaan Abyss being able to get across the
border. It was an unfortunate situation, and but I'm glad to see that
since the early two thousands, bothmen have accomplished great feats in the sport
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of professional wrestling. The reason whyI'm flagged in Canada for the past fifteen
years is this very single call,and I held a big grudge against this
actual color for a long time.He did say in the call that you
know, we decided to lie atthe border, which of course we did,
which the promoter tells you to becausenobody wants to pay for that American
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visa coming over. I have sincerelinquished that grudge that I've held, but
yet haven't talked to this guy inyears, So it's fun for me that
he listens and then even called upa message. I also, I'm not
encouraging people to call up their coldCabanas stories. I know it's easy because
it is my podcast, but that'snot what I'm looking for. But this
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is one of my stories mixed inwith a caller who's calling in the story
the time I did get kicked outof Canada. Actually was the second time
I got kicked out of Canada,and it is still on my record today.
I still have to announce myself whenI come into Canada. I get
sent to customs. I have togive them a sheet and a poster and
show them why I'm wrestling and whereI'm wrestling. I have to declare my
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merchandise that I'm selling, and it'sa big hassle. But it's a hassle
because it comes with a story,and that's the fun of life, and
that's the fun of this journey thatI've had in all of these wonderful years
of wrestling. So we hear theflip side, the promoter calling in having
his whole show ruined in this crazyworld turning because of me. I might
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have gotten two guys hurt who hadnever done hardcore wrestling. What if that
was their story they're calling in thenext week going I went to the hospital
because I had to wrestle in thismatch because Cool Cabana an Abyss led at
the border and got kicked out ofa show they were supposed to headline.
You never know where these calls cancome from. They could come from everywhere,
including Canada. Today seems to bea very heavy ad It a called
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day the Crusher, a person thatmade Milwaukee famous. I think they said
Crush related his beer because of theunfortunate death of a wrestler. He became
Tang team Champions with Red Bastin andcame through our city. I saw the
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advertisements, so I knew they werecoming through, and unfortunately there was a
beer strike on. And I don'tknow that the wrestler who as she stopped
maybe before or after to get beer, and well it wasn't the case.
He must have known that there wasa strike on because in the investment they
were complaining. In anticipation of this, I contacted a friend of mine and
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asked him to bring two six packsof canned beer that he had and meet
me at a certain entrance. Iwalked around so a pick us and I
waited for him. When I sawhim, COMBAT convinced the Usher to open
the door and let him in,and he gave me to a box with
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the two in there, and Iproceeded to go into the dressing room.
The main event was over and Crusherand that came back and he waved to
me and you know whatever. AndI was just settling up my pictures and
I said, oh, Crusher,you're thirsty, A bet you want a
beer? And he said, ohyeah, and this grecty voice, and
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I opened the box up. Isat here and it was nice and cold
too, and the beer went aroundand there was one six pack that wasn't
open, and Crusher just sort ofput it under his stair under where we
were sitting and said, that's fine. He thanked me tremendously, and I
felt pretty good. And the Crushercame two or three times after that,
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and every time he came, youknow, developed a good friendship with him.
So it's one thing I learned.You want to endeavor yourself to a
wrestler yet to know what they're likeand do something like I did. I
mean, what a story befriending theCrusher now deceased. This man has been
around so long that he was befriendingthe legendary Crusher by buying him beers.
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Also wrestling Grandpa has been around solong. And this is sorry, this
is I don't mean to make thatsound bad, but I don't. I
didn't even know there was such thingas a beer strike. I mean prohibition.
I think that was in the thirtiesor forties, so I know it
wasn't that but a beer strike.Imagine being so smart to know there was
a beer strike, and the fuckingCrusher comes and the promoter doesn't do it,
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the ref doesn't do it, butthe little program kid is smart enough
to know to bring Crusher beers.Of course that's what Crusher wanted. These
stories are great, wrestling, Grandpa, keep them coming. I can't believe
you haven't ran out of stories yet. I still have some more from the
wrestling Grandpa. So cool to bearound in those times. To picture myself
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in that locker room with those guysall drinking beer after their matches. Let's
be honest, drinking beer before theirmatches. Let's be more honest, probably
during their matches. Are right asthey're going outside the curtain. Crusher was
a legendary wrestler. If you don'tknow who he was, look him up.
And if you do look him up, you will see he looks exactly
like a man who loves a goodbeer or two or six. Wrestling Anonymous,
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beat Wrestling anonymous, please hold.So he is two thousand and six.
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I am a preacher's kid. Ihave access to a church. I have
keys. I am the channifer atthe time of my father's church, so
I am in charge of keeping itclean every week. My friends and I
discover that Ted DIBIASEI, the milliondollars Man, is doing like Christian youth
group things, and we decided,hey, you have access to a church.
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We will bring the million dollars Manover and he will talk to us,
but we won't tell anyone, andhe'll just be the three of us
and we'll have a great time.Come the million dollars Man in the coming
talk about like his days in Japan, or it was like in the eighties
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and early nineties in the WWAC,what it was like to be in the
nw euro etcetera, etcetera. Soit's going off with a hitch, like
we planned it, we got itbooked, and I guess Ted's people call
the church one day and find outthat like this isn't real, and he
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somehow gets ahold of me and Itaught to said, and he is just
just very father me and gives melike a butt chewing I've never gotten before,
but not like a really mean way, and he just goes, son,
I'm really disappointed in you guys.We could have done something special at
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that church. Oh no, yougot the disappointed dad talk from the million
dollars man. Also, I lovethat you were ready to scam the million
dollar man, but still as thepreacher's kid that you are, you would
only say butt chewing on an anonymouspodcast for all the listeners. I'm sorry
if this was a bait and switch, thinking you would hear a story about
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how million dollar man Ted Dbasi scammedthe church somehow huge plot twist. It
was the church that was scamming themillion dollar man Ted Dbias. Actually it
wasn't really the church. It wasthe church's son. It makes total sense.
I remember the time when Ted DBIASIand a lot of wrestlers they found
a new Oh, how can wesay, this way to make a living
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by mixing the world of Jesus inthe world of pro wrestling. And it
was doing these sermons and selling wrestlingalmost to the church. There was a
couple of leagues and I feel MillionDollar Man was a part of it.
I know George South is a partof it. And I'm not saying it's
Carney or Scammy, but it's anew revenue stream for some of these wrestlers,
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and why not mix your two loves? That makes sense to me.
And so there was a time whereTed DBAs was very involved in these churches
with wrestling, and he was travelingaround and he was doing sermons and he
was putting on shows. And toknow that if you're in at the church
somehow, and especially as a kid, so maybe you weren't like a hundred
percent down with it, but youloved wrestling that you had this crazy in
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to one of the legends, oneof the greats and still is one of
the greats. And ted To beasi'sjust trying to make a living. He's
trying to tour around. He's gotto get the word out that he's doing
these, so he's getting press releasesor whatever it is to let churches know
they could bring him in for anominal fee. And I would do the
exact same thing. If Barry Horwitzwas touring the synagogues and I, the
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son of a rabbi, found out. And I'm sure my rabbi father couldn't
give a crap about Barry Horwitz,but I knew, or maybe my dad
was like, hey, you knowthat wrestler. He's touring the synagogues.
I would do the same exact thing. Try to reach out, try to
get him to come to my synagogueso he could just sit down with me
and my friends. This is sucha fun story, and I get exactly
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where you were coming from. Threehail Mary's and an apolo will do and
I forgive you. Two thousand andtwo, I am in my fourth year
of a three year Bachelor of Artsprogram at York University in Toronto. I
am a horrible student. I amnot interested in school. I am only
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in school because my Jewish parents werebusting my balls to get a degree,
and I have one exam that Ineed to pass very very well in order
to graduate. I was very scaredthat I wasn't going to do that.
So I made the decision that mostgood, smart people would have made,
and that is to cheat. Ispent all night coming up with the most
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intricate cheat sheets you've ever seen onthese small little pieces of paper, and
so I had slept in. Iwas literally the last person in the auditorium
for the exam. And it's likeright out of a movie. And this
is marketing. This is a classfor marketing. And I walk in like
a complete JABBRONI and schlumped down onthe table and put my bag down,
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and I pull out my cheese sheetsand just slide them underneath the paper.
And so they asked you to flipover the page. And there was two
questions and they were both for youto fill out an essay form, my
worst way of doing anything in school. And the first question was something about
an oil company that you needed toprepare some sort of business plan for.
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And then the nightmare. It turnedinto a dream at this point because the
next question said, in the yeartwo thousand and three, WWWWE chairman Vince
McMahon and his Canadian franchise or Carlde Marco, are looking to globally expand
their company. Please provide a detailedanalysis on what you would do to advise
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them into making wwego globally. Icould not believe with my eyes the question
that was on that paper. Andyou may be thinking that that's bullshit.
How is that question on your exam? And that's because that one year in
particular, the marketing class had broughtin Canadian president of WWF, Carl DeMarco
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to speak to the class. Sothere was one session that spoke about wrestling
and WWF. I was the lastperson in the exam room. I had
written over twenty five pages detailed reportson what the WWE should do, from
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bring back Brett to bring back theWarrior, to fantasy booking matches, everything
that I could have ever dreamed ofin a question was asked to me.
And I am so thrilled to saythat I passed university. It was a
really solid exam. I can't evenbegin to tell you how much I Cole
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Cabana relate with this call. AndI can tell and understand the excitement in
which this caller tells the story mesomeone who did not want to go to
college, someone who was known formaybe getting some extra help on college exams
because I hated studying or even goingto school, someone who was forced to
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go to college by my parents becauseI wanted to be a pro wrestler and
I was obsessed with pro wrestling,so I only went to appease my parents
to get that degree. And withthat obsession of pro wrestling was the knowledge
that that's all I cared about andthe only reason that I took business.
Just like this person with an emphasison marketing, I have a business marketing
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degree from Western Michigan University only becauseI said to myself, well, I'm
going to be a wrestler. Eventually, I can't get a degree for professional
wrestling. What's the next best stayingwell business? I guess because there's a
business of wrestling. And every singlething I did in university was based off
of wrestling. Everything I thought tomyself, Well, if I'm taking this
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class and I want to build abusiness, I would build a wrestling show.
I would make in a wrestling empire. How do I mark it for
wrestling? It was all based onthat, and in my fantasy world,
I get this question and this motherfucker, this lucky motherfucker, who I feel
is so akin to me, andI do know who this caller is,
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so it's even more fun that Ican relate to him so much. Got
the dream question. It really isin no world would this ever happen,
And it made me so happy tolisten to because I feel I would have
done just as good, and Ifeel that these professors would have been like
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I've taught them something. I'm agreat professor. But it's like, no,
we all hate this. We lovewrestling, and years of reading the
dirt sheets and watching wrestling and goingthrough the magazines and finding the Internet and
being in AOL chat rooms. That'swhat made me pass this test. That's
what made me write twenty seven pagesin essay form detailing how smart I am
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not in business but in wrestling,because we're all so frigging obsessed with wrestling,
especially in that era, especially atthat age, and it really makes
me nostalgic, and it really makesme jealous. I'm honest, I have
a lot of jealousy because I wentto college. I have a marketing degree.
I took the bullshit tests. Isucked at school, and I loved
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that the thing we obsess about wecan use in school context and it can
make us look smart. We're allsmart. We are. We just all
happen to be smart about wrestling andnothing else. Well, some of you
are probably very educated, but inthis group, we know so much about
wrestling, and I'm so glad itcould translate to something else in your life.
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Wrestling Anonymous, please hold for sponsors. Two of my brothers, a
cousin, and our friend went toWWE Night of Champions two thousand and nine
in Philadelphia. The group's ages rangedfrom seventeen to twenty one, and we
all went to the show high Duringthe show, in the middle of a
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match, my little brother and cousin, who are both seventeen, returned to
our seats without sitting down, andmy brother asked me for the keys to
the car. I told him,no, you're not gonna be able to
get back in, and he saidhe'll figure it out. And I asked
him why he needs the keys,and he goes no time to play,
Just give me the f and keys, trust me. I didn't trust him,
but at that point in time,I started getting embarrassed with my brother
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making a scene by arguing and standingup and blocking people's view of an ongoing
match. So I said, screwit, and I gave him the keys.
As the show's going on, I'mvery concerned at this point in time
while my brother's out for a varietyof reasons, especially because I had no
idea what kind of shady shenanigans hewas up to, and I needed my
co are to be able to getback after the show to the most magical
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place of Long Island, New York. After what felt like the longest thirty
maybe forty minutes, little bro andcousin come back, and I can breathe
a sigh of relief. I askedthem where they were and what they were
doing, and my brother explained tome that he saw a wrestler in the
arena elevator. He knew this wrestlerlike to smoke weed and told him he
had a blunt in the car andasked if you wanted to smoke. The
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wrestler agreed, and somehow my brotherand my cousin got high with a WWE
superstar in my car in the parkinglot of what was then either the Welds
Fargo or Wacoba Center and then figuredout how to make his way back into
the building. Listen, I don'tencourage doing drugs. I think everybody knows
that about me. But this mightbe the perfect story. I know,
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I said, being a college studentand having to take a test on fantasy
booking the WWF might be the perfectstory. But I've changed my mind.
This is the story. These arethe stories that I want and called in.
This is so good and I hateto tell you, listener that he
did say who it was, andI did edit it out, and maybe
if you subscribe to The Patriot,I'll tell you in a message. But
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everything about this screams a wrestling anonymouscall. I could picture the actual wrestler
being like, don't worry, Iwill make sure we take you right through
security. I'm sure they went rightthrough the back door where the wrestlers were.
He probably took them right through thebackstage area and led them right back
to their seats, because it wasthat important that he gets to smoke this
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weed. Well, not that important. As a wrestler, I could tell
you, it's very easy to belike, come on, I'll get you
back in. So the wrestler knewthe ease of which it was to get
these fans back outside the wrestler andthe elevator. It all makes sense when
you told me who the wrestler is. He's just roaming around the arena.
He really doesn't care. And youknow that the wrestlers like to smoke weed.
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They do, a lot of themdo. I don't, never,
have never smoke weed in my life. I'm sorry if I've let you down.
I'm sorry if I wouldn't accept yourinvitation to your car and then get
you back in. But I lovethe story about it. Thank you for
the perfect scenario. And it wouldonly be better if you then went and
took a test afterwards on fantasy bookingprofessional wrestling at a university two eleven the
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Canadian Maritimes and a group coming fromOntario called CWI was coming through and on
the post that they had a hosta great name. Scott Steiner was there.
Rode Dug Billy gunn Xpoch, Brucepef Case I believe was there as
well as one of the Nasty Boys, if not both of them, being
a lifelong wrestling fan but not oneto have gone too many indie shows at
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the time I decided it was timeto go. This coincide with me also
discovering Twitter, so my very firstday on Twitter. Of course as wrestling
fan, I added every wrestler thatI could think of, and of course
they had a randomly messaging them ortweeting them so to speak, first got
every to get back to me.Actually it was road Dug, a very
pleasant quick conversation. I also owneda shower pair in Bedford, Nova,
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Scotia, and just randomly throughout theidea, Hey, road Doug, do
you need your gear worked on oryour wrestling boots fixed? To my surprise,
he replies, I don't, butBilly does. Come on down to
the show. The show that wewere going to meet up with was in
Sackville, Nova, Scotia, soI met up with them, found myself
in the middle of the locker roomwith a whole bunch of guys that grew
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up watching and these guys were asawesome as passing me. Then I got
to actually watch the show for free. After show, we met up at
the hotel so I could grab theirgear heading down to the lobby. They
had told me they were at Montana's. Was just being road Dog and Billy
Gunn having dinner. So I walkedinto the restaurant. There they are at
the in a booth. Road Dogwags me down, says, come sit
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with us. Also that peaks aroundthe corner. That sitting with him around
the booth was Scott Steiner. Youcan imagine how happy he would have been
to see a mark walking toward them, or a fan of any kind when
they were trying to have dinner.But he scooped over. I sat beside
him while they finished out their dinnerand we just talked about life for about
five to ten minutes. Then theadventure began, or a second part of
the adventure began. When we gotin the car and it was driving.
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It was probably a three minute drive. If you've ever driven with this man,
it's ridiculous. Man. He wasgiggling the whole time. And I
think as soon as he turned theaddition on the pedal was to the medal
to the dam swell friends with RoadDoug. I think we talked weekly.
All right, there's a lot goingon in this call. There was,
And that's the fun of this showis sometimes there's a call with not necessarily
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an overarching story which is the bestway to call on a call, have
a beginning, a middle, andan end. But sometimes there's just so
much happening that all of these nuggetsare information. All make for a great
scenario. Not always, but thishappened to be one of them. One
thing I'll say is I'll usually domy best to edit it out when a
fan calls themselves a mark. Itwas hard to edit on this one,
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so I couldn't. And it's somethingpeople do a lot, and it's a
word that I really just don't like, so I try to get rid of
it. I couldn't on this one. I don't like it. It's kind
of derogatory. I know you're callingyourself it, but to me, it's
kind of derogatory, not my favoriteword. You also ask question or said
if any of you have ever drivenwith Scott Steiner. No, nobody's ever
driven with Scott Steiner. A verysmall percentage of these listeners have dried.
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Maybe if Pete Williams is listening tothis, he's the only one who would
go, oh, yeah, Ihave, and it's crazy. The other
thing I was gonna note is ifyou have a profession or a trade in
which it could help a pro wrestler, they will always take you up on
it. We love free stuff,and we know that we do a job
where people are fans of ours.So for me, it's not necessarily like
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the Cohn like I'm going to calmthis guy into giving me a free thing
or whatever. It's almost the appreciationof, like, Wow, you like
me, and you do something that'scool that can help me. I think
what you do is great. Ido think it's like a double appreciation.
And that's why it wasn't surprising tome that he took you up on that,
or wanted to help his friend Billyfix his boots or whatever it might
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be. So as a wrestler,it doesn't really seem weird to me.
I know it might seem weird asa fan, but I'm telling you from
the wrestler perspective, that did makesense to me. If you're a normal
adult, I feel it could takeyou a long way in befriending wrestlers if
that's something you're looking to do.We're always looking for normalcy and a job
that's so crazy and so fast andvery hectic. Normalcy in a fan or
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a supporter is like a great cooloff brings us down checks us in reality,
helps us come down from the highI feel of performing and the whole
thing of pro wrestling. I'm anexchange student from Scotland and I'm currently living
in Northern California. So recently inmy time here, I was down for
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PWG's Battle of Los Angeles. Iwas very nervous. It was my first
show, and it was my firstwrestling show in over two years. Because
of the pandemic end lyne. Iwas kind of too nervous to speak to
anyone on This man called Alex.He went of his way to speak to
me, and he basically said tome was that you're in exchange student.
You are at your first time inAmerica, it is your first time at
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PWG show, and it's your firsttime in LA. I've got you and
just for the rest of the day, he just was so kind to me.
He made sure that I met people, He made sure that I met
wrestlers. He introduced me to allof his friends. We had lunch,
we had food together, we sattogether during the show. He made sure
I got good seats. He paidfor like all my dinner, all my
drinks, like he paid for marchas well like he just went out of
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his way to make sure that Ihad the best time, and to be
honest, I did, and itreally reminded me why I loved wrestling,
and it really reminded me why Iloved going to wrestling shows. I kept
in the name Alex and hopefully nexttime you're in line at PWG, I
assume everybody knows this Alex guy.And I'm not tapped. I'm not as
tapped into that scene as I wouldlike to anymore. I think I've kind
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of aged out of it a littlebit, sadly not my choice. But
in my youth a ring of honor, there was a fan and still is
a fan named Greg H. AndGreg H was very wealthy, and Greg
H took care of everybody and hewas and is the best. He threw
party, he took care of gettogethers, he took care of meals,
he took care of the wrestlers.At that time, we were all in
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our mid twenties, no one wasgetting paid that well. Greg H looked
after all of us. And thenas somebody who goes to Japan as a
foreigner when the Japanese quote unquote sponsorsor the wrestlers, find you a sponsor
or. The wrestlers even take careof you by your meals, show you
around, make sure you have agood time. It's the best I will.
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It makes my heart feel so good. I never forget these things.
So for Alex to do this forthis anonymous caller. As much as this
caller was saying how much he appreciatedit, I appreciate it even more.
This made me feel so good asa wrestling fan, as a wrestler,
as somebody in the community. AndI didn't even do anything. I just
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listened to this call. Alex isthe one that did something. But Alex
is representing people a group. Alex, you're a good person. Somebody knows
Alex. Let him know that Coltthinks you're a great person. And if
you need anything, I'm happy toset up anything to help you help others.
Caller. I'm glad you had thatexperience. I want you to know
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that America is great. American wrestlingfans can be great, and we do
have great people and great representation.And this call made me smile and made
me feel so good, maybe evenmore than you. I'm sure that's not
the truth. Wrestling anonymous please holdfor sponsors. Back in early two thousand,
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there was a wrestling show that Ihappened to be the promoter of the
show was in Winnipeg, Canada.Fortunately, the show was booked with a
couple of top stars. One ofthem his name was Paul Cabana, the
other one was the Monster of ThisThey both flew in from their respective hounds,
and unfortunately, as they got tothe border, co Cabana decided to
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go into a long winded rant withthe border security guard, talking about how
he's known me the promoter for along time, and we went to school
together in Michigan, and unfortunately thatstory was not true and he was denied
from being able to cross into thegreat the country of Canada. In terms
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of Abiss, same problem didn't tellthe truthless to why he came across the
border to enter, and it endedup with him not being able to enter.
So what should have been a showwith two amazing stars like Cool Cabana
and the Monster Abiss turned out tobe a main event hardcore match with fluorescent
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light tubes and craziness that the twopeople in the main event had never done
before, and it was quite thebattle. I truly believe that the show
would have been amazing had Colt Cabanaan Abyss being able to get across the
border. It was an unfortunate situation, and but I'm glad to see that
since the early two thousands, bothmen have accomplished great feats in the sport
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of professional wrestling. The reason whyI'm flagged in Canada for the past fifteen
years is this very single call,and I held a big grudge against this
actual color for a long time.He did say in the call that you
know, we decided to lie atthe border, which of course we did,
which the promoter tells you to becausenobody wants to pay for that American
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visa coming over. I have sincerelinquished that grudge that I've held, but
yet haven't talked to this guy inyears, So it's fun for me that
he listens and then even called upa message. I also, I'm not
encouraging people to call up their coldCabanas stories. I know it's easy because
it is my podcast, but that'snot what I'm looking for. But this
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is one of my stories mixed inwith a caller who's calling in the story
the time I did get kicked outof Canada. Actually was the second time
I got kicked out of Canada,and it is still on my record today.
I still have to announce myself whenI come into Canada. I get
sent to customs. I have togive them a sheet and a poster and
show them why I'm wrestling and whereI'm wrestling. I have to declare my
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merchandise that I'm selling, and it'sa big hassle. But it's a hassle
because it comes with a story,and that's the fun of life, and
that's the fun of this journey thatI've had in all of these wonderful years
of wrestling. So we hear theflip side, the promoter calling in having
his whole show ruined in this crazyworld turning because of me. I might
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have gotten two guys hurt who hadnever done hardcore wrestling. What if that
was their story they're calling in thenext week going I went to the hospital
because I had to wrestle in thismatch because Cool Cabana an Abyss led at
the border and got kicked out ofa show they were supposed to headline.
You never know where these calls cancome from. They could come from everywhere,
including Canada. Today seems to bea very heavy ad It a called
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day the Crusher, a person thatmade Milwaukee famous. I think they said
Crush related his beer because of theunfortunate death of a wrestler. He became
Tang team Champions with Red Bastin andcame through our city. I saw the
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advertisements, so I knew they werecoming through, and unfortunately there was a
beer strike on. And I don'tknow that the wrestler who as she stopped
maybe before or after to get beer, and well it wasn't the case.
He must have known that there wasa strike on because in the investment they
were complaining. In anticipation of this, I contacted a friend of mine and
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asked him to bring two six packsof canned beer that he had and meet
me at a certain entrance. Iwalked around so a pick us and I
waited for him. When I sawhim, COMBAT convinced the Usher to open
the door and let him in,and he gave me to a box with
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the two in there, and Iproceeded to go into the dressing room.
The main event was over and Crusherand that came back and he waved to
me and you know whatever. AndI was just settling up my pictures and
I said, oh, Crusher,you're thirsty, A bet you want a
beer? And he said, ohyeah, and this grecty voice, and
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I opened the box up. Isat here and it was nice and cold
too, and the beer went aroundand there was one six pack that wasn't
open, and Crusher just sort ofput it under his stair under where we
were sitting and said, that's fine. He thanked me tremendously, and I
felt pretty good. And the Crushercame two or three times after that,
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and every time he came, youknow, developed a good friendship with him.
So it's one thing I learned.You want to endeavor yourself to a
wrestler yet to know what they're likeand do something like I did. I
mean, what a story befriending theCrusher now deceased. This man has been
around so long that he was befriendingthe legendary Crusher by buying him beers.
(28:18):
Also wrestling Grandpa has been around solong. And this is sorry, this
is I don't mean to make thatsound bad, but I don't. I
didn't even know there was such thingas a beer strike. I mean prohibition.
I think that was in the thirtiesor forties, so I know it
wasn't that but a beer strike.Imagine being so smart to know there was
a beer strike, and the fuckingCrusher comes and the promoter doesn't do it,
(28:44):
the ref doesn't do it, butthe little program kid is smart enough
to know to bring Crusher beers.Of course that's what Crusher wanted. These
stories are great, wrestling, Grandpa, keep them coming. I can't believe
you haven't ran out of stories yet. I still have some more from the
wrestling Grandpa. So cool to bearound in those times. To picture myself
(29:06):
in that locker room with those guysall drinking beer after their matches. Let's
be honest, drinking beer before theirmatches. Let's be more honest, probably
during their matches. Are right asthey're going outside the curtain. Crusher was
a legendary wrestler. If you don'tknow who he was, look him up.
And if you do look him up, you will see he looks exactly
like a man who loves a goodbeer or two or six. Wrestling Anonymous,
(29:32):
Please hold for the credits. Thankyou to you for listening to this
week's episode of Wrestling anonymous. Theshow is usually edited and produced by myself
in my studio apartment in Chicago,ILLINOI today, actually tonight, it was
from the same eighteenth floor of myAustralian hotel that I've been at for a
(29:55):
couple of weeks. Still a greatview of the city, all while the
sun hits my bell can be perfectlylike clockwork at one pm every single day.
Music is by Matt Cohen Music onTwitter. Cover art is by Dona
six one nine on Instagram, andvoiceover work is by at Sarah Joy Shockey.
I'm also on social media Twitter,Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook.
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